Improving Your Son’s Chances of Completing College

A recent article “Report Sheds Light on Factors Influencing College Graduation” on the Education Week website by Caralee Adams summarized a new report “Assessing Graduation Rates at Four-Year Institutions” that reports on what factors contribute to the likelihood that students will complete college. The report indicates that a student’s best chances to graduate will occur if the student is an Asian female whose parents have gone to college; however, there are some facts that seem to improve the chances of other students to complete college.

Among others, the most significant factors to improve a student’s chances of completing college are the following: